Baby bans, fake news and paranormal activity at Reform. Catch up on the latest gossip in this week’s instalment of The Capitalist

BANNED: SPEAR GUNS, FLARES AND BABIES

As City AM revealed this week, the list of “prohibited items” detailed on signs at London Tech Week sounded more like the menu at a terrorists’ car-boot sale. Spear guns, flares, knuckle dusters and explosives were all listed as banned, and it seems another dangerous item ought to have been included: babies. The Times reported that entrepreneur Davina Schonle was barred from entering on the grounds that she had her eight-month old daughter with her. She was rightly furious with the absurd decision, but remarkably a spokesperson for London Tech Week doubled down, saying “the environment hasn’t been designed to incorporate the particular needs, facilities and safeguards that under-16s require.” Meanwhile, sessions yesterday at the annual tech jamboree included “empowering........

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